---
title: "Research in November 2024: top topics and papers"
description: "In November 2024, the tracked journals published 3,652 papers (finance 616, accounting 70, economics 843, management 425, operations research 462, AI 1,236). The most frequent keywords were “China” (133), “Chinese listed companies” (96) and “corporate governance” (82)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-11
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-11.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "In November 2024, the tracked journals published 3,652 papers (finance 616, accounting 70, economics 843, management 425, operations research 462, AI 1,236)."
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-10-26T18:01:08+09:00
window: 2026-09-27 to 2026-10-26
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# Research published in November 2024

What the tracked finance, accounting, economics, management, operations research and AI journals published in November 2024, by publication date in OpenAlex. This page is a fixed monthly record: its address does not change. Counts can still grow a little as late papers are indexed, and citations are updated daily.

## Key findings

- In November 2024, the tracked journals published 3,652 papers (finance 616, accounting 70, economics 843, management 425, operations research 462, AI 1,236).
- The most frequent keywords were “China” (133), “Chinese listed companies” (96) and “corporate governance” (82).
- Compared with their share in the twelve months before, the keywords that grew most were “Chinese listed companies” (96 papers, +36), “interpretability” (39 papers, +18) and “regional heterogeneity” (39 papers, +16).
- The institutions with the most papers were Hong Kong Polytechnic University (57), Chinese Academy of Sciences (55) and Xi'an Jiaotong University (49).
- China was involved in 44% of the papers.

## Papers by category

*Papers published in November 2024*

| Category | Papers |
|---|---:|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 616 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 70 |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 843 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 425 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 462 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 1,236 |

## Top keywords

*Most frequent keywords, November 2024*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 133 |
| 2 | [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 96 |
| 3 | [corporate governance](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/corporate-governance.md) | 82 |
| 4 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 79 |
| 5 | [financial constraints](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/financial-constraints.md) | 67 |
| 6 | state-owned enterprises | 65 |
| 7 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 46 |
| 8 | [information asymmetry](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/information-asymmetry.md) | 44 |
| 9 | interpretability | 39 |
| 10 | regional heterogeneity | 39 |
| 11 | class imbalance | 38 |
| 12 | moderating effect | 38 |
| 13 | [digital transformation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/digital-transformation.md) | 36 |
| 14 | firm performance | 35 |
| 15 | data augmentation | 34 |

## Growing keywords

*Papers in November 2024 beyond the keyword's share in the twelve months before*

| Keyword | Papers | At earlier share | Extra papers |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| [Chinese listed companies](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/chinese-listed-companies.md) | 96 | 60.1 | +35.9 |
| interpretability | 39 | 21.0 | +18.0 |
| regional heterogeneity | 39 | 22.8 | +16.2 |
| [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 33 | 18.8 | +14.2 |
| data augmentation | 34 | 21.9 | +12.1 |
| ESG performance | 26 | 16.4 | +9.6 |
| reinforcement learning | 27 | 17.5 | +9.5 |
| climate risk | 20 | 11.2 | +8.8 |
| digital financial inclusion | 13 | 4.5 | +8.5 |
| digital economy | 21 | 13.3 | +7.7 |

## Top keywords by category

*The five most frequent keywords per category, November 2024*

| Category | Most frequent keywords |
|---|---|
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | Chinese listed companies (74); corporate governance (61); China (56); financial constraints (49); state-owned enterprises (43) |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | corporate governance (7); corporate social responsibility (5); audit fees (4); earnings management (4); information asymmetry (4) |
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | China (68); COVID-19 pandemic (26); state-owned enterprises (17); regional heterogeneity (14); CO2 emissions (13) |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | firm performance (15); digital transformation (13); purchase intention (13); COVID-19 pandemic (12); innovation (12) |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | mixed-integer linear programming (20); vehicle routing (15); mixed integer programming (13); multi-objective optimization (12); Benders decomposition (11) |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | graph neural networks (44); class imbalance (35); data augmentation (34); interpretability (34); large language models (32) |

## Institutions

*Institutions with the most papers, November 2024*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/hong-kong-polytechnic-university.md) | 57 |
| 2 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 55 |
| 3 | [Xi'an Jiaotong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/xi-an-jiaotong-university.md) | 49 |
| 4 | [Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique.md) | 42 |
| 5 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 40 |
| 6 | [Wuhan University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/wuhan-university.md) | 38 |
| 7 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 36 |
| 8 | Huazhong University of Science and Technology | 35 |
| 9 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 35 |
| 10 | Northwestern Polytechnical University | 30 |

## Countries

*Countries, November 2024*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 1,624 |
| 2 | United States | 634 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 360 |
| 4 | Germany | 190 |
| 5 | Australia | 178 |
| 6 | France | 166 |
| 7 | Italy | 148 |
| 8 | Canada | 128 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 126 |
| 10 | India | 120 |

## Journals

*Journals with the most papers, November 2024*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 284 |
| 2 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 148 |
| 3 | [Pattern Recognition](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/pattern-recognition.md) | 116 |
| 4 | [Neural Networks](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-networks.md) | 107 |
| 5 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 104 |
| 6 | [International Review of Financial Analysis](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-financial-analysis.md) | 96 |
| 7 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 80 |
| 8 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 74 |
| 9 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 73 |
| 10 | [Technological Forecasting and Social Change](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/technological-forecasting-and-social-change.md) | 66 |

## Equations and models

*Most-mentioned equations and models, November 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)*

| # | Equation or model | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Graph neural network (graph convolution)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/graph-neural-network-graph-convolution.md) | 92 |
| 2 | [Scaled dot-product attention (Transformer)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/scaled-dot-product-attention-transformer.md) | 81 |
| 3 | [Linear and integer programming](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/linear-and-integer-programming.md) | 78 |
| 4 | [Convolutional neural network (CNN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/convolutional-neural-network-cnn.md) | 65 |
| 5 | [Contrastive loss (InfoNCE)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/contrastive-loss-infonce.md) | 54 |
| 6 | [Long short-term memory (LSTM)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/long-short-term-memory-lstm.md) | 44 |
| 7 | [Mediation model (indirect effect)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/mediation-model-indirect-effect.md) | 31 |
| 8 | [Gradient boosting (XGBoost)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/gradient-boosting-xgboost.md) | 29 |
| 9 | [Generative adversarial network (GAN)](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/generative-adversarial-network-gan.md) | 25 |
| 10 | [Random forest](https://scholar4ai.com/equations/random-forest.md) | 23 |

## Datasets

*Most-mentioned datasets, November 2024 (titles, abstracts and keywords)*

| # | Dataset | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Economic Policy Uncertainty index | 19 |
| 2 | S&P 500 | 18 |
| 3 | Twitter / X | 14 |
| 4 | China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) | 8 |
| 5 | Climate Policy Uncertainty index | 8 |
| 6 | ImageNet | 8 |
| 7 | China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) | 6 |
| 8 | CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 | 6 |
| 9 | KITTI | 6 |
| 10 | MS COCO | 5 |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Research published in November 2024. Journal Research Rankings. Retrieved October 26, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-11

```bibtex
@misc{scholar4ai-reports-2024-11,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Research published in November 2024},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/reports/2024-11}},
  urldate = {2026-10-26},
  note = {Journal Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).